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NCJ 184388
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Title:
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Alternative Sanctions in Germany: An Overview of Germany's Sentencing Practices
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Series:
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NIJ Research Preview
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Author(s):
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Christian Pfeiffer
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Date Published:
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02/1996 |
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Page Count:
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3 |
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National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
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Text PDF |
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Type:
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Studies/research reports |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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This paper reports on studies of Germany's sentencing practices,
with attention to the use of alternative sanctions. |
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Abstract:
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Studies conducted by the Criminological Research Institute of
Lower Saxony explored individual and regional disparities in
sentencing and sought to determine the effects of sentencing
practices on offending patterns and career criminality. Findings
from these studies suggest that when youths are imprisoned for
offenses, they are more likely to later embrace criminality than
are youth given alternative sanctions. Judges, therefore, began
to avoid giving prison sentences to the extent possible. Another
study reviewed some 2,000 case dispositions, assigning the judges
in the cases to one of two groups: "authoritarian" judges and
"liberal" judges deemed more communicative, more positive in
their expectations of offenders, and milder in their sentencing
approach. Social workers who were responsible for monitoring
community service sentences were similarly categorized. The rates
at which offenders disobeyed judicial orders were analyzed
according to the type of judge and social worker involved in
their cases. In cases in which both the judge and social worker were
liberal, offender disobedience was 6.5 percent; in cases in which
the judge was liberal and the social worker was authoritarian,
offender disobedience was 11.3 percent; in cases in which the judge
was authoritarian and the social worker was liberal, offender
disobedience was 14.4 percent; and in cases in which both the judge
and the social worker were authoritarian, offender disobedience was
27.3 percent. Subsequent widespread dissemination and publication
of these research results effected change in Germany's sentencing
policies and practices. |
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Main Term(s):
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Foreign courts |
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Index Term(s):
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Sentencing ; Alternatives to institutionalization ; Sentencing factors ; Judicial attitudes ; Foreign sentencing ; Germany |
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Research in Progress Seminar Series |
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